Stocky and tanned at 46, Wells bends over the wheel, breathing in the addictive scent of fish and salt water as he squints into a perfect Florida winter day of warm sun, chilly breezes, and
sharp black shadows.
Not exact matches
It features the superb high - definition master from the original Blu - ray release — the image is
sharp and rich, with deep
blacks and textured
shadows, a reminder of just how beautiful
black - and - white can be on a well - mastered, well - produced Blu - ray — and the isolated score, attributed to Columbia's musical director Mischa Bakaleinikof but including musical cues from the studio's music library, plus a booklet with an essay by Julie Kirgo.
The film has some of the greatest
black and white images ever filmed, dramatic lighting and
sharp shadows, everything you think of as the noir style, only instead of an urban crime drama, it's used to powerful effect to create a nightmare of a fairy tale.
For another, the
blacks massed against white symbolized the
black of Latin civilization, «the
black cypress trees in the cemeteries, the
black funeral carriages, the many women dressed in
black, how in Spanish light the
shadows are
black with
sharp edges.»
Their pure white and dense
black ribbons float from wall into mid-air, throwing
sharp shadows onto the gallery walls and alluding to the organic and the mystical, like the artist's gentle transcriptions on canvas.